Category: Events

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year by GIScience Heidelberg

Dear readers of our blog, we wish you and your beloved ones a jolly good christmas, and hope that your start into 2017 will be an amazing one! We’d like to take the opportunity to say “Thank you!” for your keen interest in reading our blog posts throughout this year. Stay tuned – more great…

2016-12-21
cfp: VGI-Analytics 2017 Workshop @ AGILE Conference Wageningen

cfp: VGI-Analytics 2017 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): Integration, ANALYsis, applICationS Tuesday, 9th May 2017, Wageningen University, The Netherlands at AGILE 2017 VGI-Analytics 2017 is the 4th workshop in a series of AGILE pre-conference workshops Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday lives over the past few years. Whereas…

2016-12-21
Principles and Guidelines for Citizen Science Apps and Platforms Development

On December 13 and 14, the European Citizen Science Association, the project Naturblick and Berlin’s Museum of Natural History hosted a workshop on defining principles and guidelines for best practice in development of web apps and platforms in citizen science. The two-day event brought together developers, practitioners and researchers with a great variety of backgrounds,…

2016-12-19
“Exploitation Strategy” seminar for CAP4Access project

Last week on Monday 12th, we organized a workshop for the CAP4Access project that aimed to discuss ideas and methods on how the developed tools and services within the project would be exploited especially after the project has came to an end. Dr. Emmanuel Sofianopoulos was the expert for the workshop appointed by the European Commission. The…

2016-12-19
Heidelberg, Potsdam, Karakol: Christmas Mapping Party Results

On Thursday, 08.12.2016, a Christmas mapping party took place at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Karakol, a city in the Kyrgyz Republic was herein mapped in cooperation with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam). Supported by the World Bank, the Bishkek-based Central Asian Institute of Applied Science (CAIAG) and the GFZ Potsdam are…

2016-12-17
Invitation: Colloquium Talk by Dr. Thomas Jarmer on Using Spectroscopy and hyperspectral imagery for the Assessment of Surface Properties

We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, December 19, about the use of remote sensing techniques for assessing soil and crop properties for applications in agriculture. Dr. Thomas Jarmer combines quantitative field measurements with remote sensing imagery to achieve not only a qualitative, but a quantitative assessment…

2016-12-16
From MappingParty to AtlasFete – GIS me baby one more time – GeoDecember in HD

This December saw several Mapathons in Heidelberg: From mapping wheelchair ramps in Heidelberg on Dec. 3rd, to the first CampusMobil Heidelberg Mapathon on Dec. 6th, to the mapathon for supporting earthquake management in Kyrgyzstan. The final opportunity will be the 2nd CampusMobil Mapathon on Thursday, Dec. 15th starting at 18.00pm. Location: Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg…

2016-12-12
I know where you have been last weekend

Bowling! 😉

2016-12-12
Invitation: Colloquium Talk by Jun.-Prof. Sven Lautenbach on Trade-offs Between Land use and Ecosystem Services

We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, December 12, about quantifying trade-offs between land use and ecosystem services. Jun.-Prof. Sven Lautenbach will provide an overview of methods to assess the different environmental goods and services produced by land systems. Policy makers are in want of such information to…

2016-12-09
Mapping ramps on the ocassion of the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Heidelberg

On Saturday 3rd December 2016 the CAP4Access team from GIScience group of Heidelberg university led a Wheelmap mapping event on the ocassion of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) at Heidelberg. Wheelmap.org is a map for finding wheelchair accessible places and it is run by one of our CAP4Access project partners,…

2016-12-08
Help to Map Your University! Let’s make CampusMobil Heidelberg happen.

Liebe Studenten und Mitarbeiter der Universität Heidelberg, wir brauchen eure Hilfe. Das CampusMobil-Team der Universität Heidelberg entwickelt derzeit eine Navigations-App, damit sich endlich jeder in den Weiten des Universitäts-Campus zurechtfinden kann. Damit man aber nicht einfach vor der Wand des Ziel-Gebäudes, sondern am Eingang des jeweiligen landet, wollen wir zunächst die verschiedenen Eingänge der Universitätsgebäude…

2016-12-02
MapSwipe2HOT_Tasking_Manager is OSM_Wiki “Image of the Week”

This week’s “OSM Wiki “Image of the Week”” shows two maps from our efforts to use MapSwipe data for defining and prioritising OSM Hot Tasking Manager tasks. We appreciate the recognition 🙂 The workflow and respective tools have been introduced recently and are based on the “Heidelberg Process“, that lead to the development of MapSwipe…

2016-12-01